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Show Squire Taylor's Boots. Avery P. Taylor, or Squire Taylor, as he was commonly cnllot, was a frequent fre-quent visitor nt my father's store In Flskdale, In the early sixties, and was almost Invariably found with his feet high up on tho old wood stove and with stovepipe hat on the back of his head. One day while In this position Johu Daly entered tho store with his son Johnny, a boy about 10 or 12 years of age, and asked to be shown a pair of boots for the boy. The old squire turned around and nBked tbe old man If It did not cost him considerable to shoe that boy. "Why," he said, "here Is a pair of boots I have had for years, and the tar 1 are hardly worn yeL" Young Johnny piped up In reply, to tbe great amusement of my father and tho bystanders: "Yes, but It yon hod them on the seat ot your pants they would have been worn out long ago." Boston Herald. |